Thursday, December 5, 2013

Comparison Between H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, VP9 and Daala

H.264/AVC


H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC (Advanced Video Coding) is a video compression format, and is currently one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of video content. The final drafting work on the first version of the standard was completed in May 2003. It has been widely adopted.

H.265/HEVC


High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or H.265 is the current joint video coding standardization project of ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (ITU-T Q.6/SG 16) and ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11). It is an evolution of current industrial H.264/AVC standard and was developed to increase AVC compression efficiency by two times and endorse the development of UHD systems. HEVC is expected to replace AVC in newly developed video systems.

VP9


VP9 is an open video compression standard being developed by Google. It basically shares common features with AVC coding like VP8 did.

Daala


Daala is the current working name of a video codec under development by the Xiph.Org Foundation. Daala is intended to be a high-efficiency codec for use cases similar to those of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC or H.265) and VP9. Daala is using a lapped transform to reduce the blocking artifacts characteristic of other video codecs that use the discrete cosine transform directly.

Comparison



H.264/AVC
Daala
Estimated Current Compression Efficiency for General Video

50:1

100:1


Complexity
High
Very High
Medium
Medium
Current Performance
Fast
Slow
Fast
N/A
Royalty
Almost free now
Some
Free
Free
Transform Coding
DCT/ Hadamard
DCT/DST
DCT/DST
Lapped (linear discrete block)
Prediction Coding
8 Modes for intra predictions
33 Directional modes for intra predictions
+ planar and DC intra prediction modes
10 Modes for intra predictions
Entropy Coding
Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding,
Context-adaptive variable-length coding (CABAC),
VLC
Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC)

Block Size
16x16
Up to 64x64
32x32

Max Resolution Support
4,096×2,304
8,192×4,320


Bits
8-14
8-12
8

Implemented Color Spaces
YUV 4:2:0 -4:4:4
YUV, RGB, YCbCr
YUV 4:2:0
YUV

1 comment:

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http://gstconf.ubicast.tv/videos/next-generation-video-codind-with-hevcz-facts-and-figures-partie-1/

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